GM writes:
As I've said elsewhere, Ararat is the 48nd highest peak in the world. That effectively puts most of the world under water if Ararat is flooded. But that's in reality. We're talking about the Bible here.
Ah yes - I had forgotten that this is not a 'religious only' thread.
GM writes:
You've got to remember that these ancient authors had a very different concept of the world around them than we do. If the physical/geographical details of the story aren't believable, that shouldn't surprise us. The authors had no idea about the world around them. Or maybe they never meant for it to be a literal account. Maybe they always intended it to be a mythic story. Or maybe it was meant to be a myth and literally true. We shouldn't expect these authors to think like us or see the world like us.
I have never succeeded in putting myself into the shoes of the original authors. From my own PoV, I would be very dissatisfied if I had written Genesis.
If I were you
And I wish that I were you
All the things I'd do
To make myself turn blue